ne plus ultra

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Hunt published workbooks and a how-to book and was generally regarded, in his flamboyant capes and hats, as the ne plus ultra of family-friendly midcentury bohemia.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

The ne plus ultra, though, was the Bullocks Wilshire tea room.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021

Here is a top-notch Italian bubbly and a sublime grower champagne that shows why that region is the ne plus ultra of sparkling wine.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021

Offering up the ne plus ultra of overexposure, Bennifer 2.0, Ms. Adams said: “They tweeze their chin, it’s in the paper. It doesn’t matter. They have several P.R. people. Several.”

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2021

When first set up, these classical frontages were considered the ne plus ultra of architectural perfection, and strangers were taken to see them as the great glory of Cambridge.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward